An anti-war musical satire with an all-star cast including John Mills, Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier, Oh! What A Lovely War movingly conveys the horror of the First World War through the popular, jingoistic songs of the time. The indomitable sentiments expressed in the soldiers' songs stand in terrible contrast to the slaughter at the front - which did away with most of a generation of young British men.

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An RAF bomber dispatched over the Netherlands is shot down, and the crew have to make their way back to safety. The secret of the movie's success is that it works on the psychology of the situation - the crew don't trust each other and they don't trust the Dutch people who may or may not be trying to help them. A classic Second World War film from the 1940s.

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